Abstract A 63Cu nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study of a Pb-doped Bi:2201 system,
Bi1.6Pb0.4Sr2.05CuOy, is presented. The temperature
dependencies of the NMR peak
shift and the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation (SLR) rate reveal the
pseudogap that opens near
K, significantly above the superconducting critical
temperature K at
the NMR experiment field, 7 T oriented . The noticeable
disparity between Tc and
and the behavior of Cu SLR at imply the
underdoped state of the studied
system. A relatively weak effect of the magnetic field on the
superconductivity evidenced from
small ( 7 K) shift of the zero-field K under
the applied 7 T field
suggests high upper critical field, Hc2, unusual for compounds with
as low Tc0.